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Monitoring & Evaluation Officer - Garbodadar

The Role:

The Design Monitoring and Evaluation (DM&E) Officer will provide overall technical monitoring and evaluation support to WFP Integrated Relief and Nutrition project and any projects assigned. The incumbent will closely work with the project managers to set, monitor and evaluate project performance targets in line with project objectives and to ensure that they are achieved. The candidate will be responsible for guiding the overall implementation of monitoring, evaluation and accountability related activities within the projects and provide timely and relevant information to the project staff. The DME Officer will also be responsible for strengthening the project M&E capacity, regularly monitor and evaluate the results to improve project performance; ensuring monitoring, evaluation and reported is practiced as a means to growing and maintaining a culture of providing credible, reliable, timely and cost-effective information for management decisions, accountability and learning in alignment with the project cycles.

Key Responsibilities:

Assessment, Design & Planning

Lead project design, planning processes including mainstreaming of the implementation of programme and projects Accountability, Monitoring and Evaluation plans at community in alignment with the World Vision Design Monitoring and Evaluation (DME) Learning through Evaluation with Accountability and Planning (LEAP) framework, Humanitarian accountability standards

• Plan, design and carry out assessments and research exercises as appropriate.
• Provide technical support and information requirements for on-going projects design of new projects
• Support project start up workshop to ensure partners and project staff have good understanding of the project monitoring and evaluation and reporting requirements
• Develop and manage an updated database and information management system for project plan, indicators and monitoring activities for projects
• Review the overall quality and consistency of plans for logic, coherence, clarity and provide feedback and assistance to improve, paying attention to such concerns as;
• Ensuring programming is informed by assessment findings and recommendations
• Employing a sound and clear logical framework
• Employing sound and practical indicators to provide evidence.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

• Support the project staff to setup and maintain appropriate and robust M&E systems
• Support monitoring and evaluation processes using WV Somaliland developed tools and provide guidance to project staff in their use
• Routinely perform quality control checks of monitoring and evaluation work, overseeing that planned monitoring and evaluation activities are taking place across projects
• Design, carry out and/or supervise consultants conducting baselines and evaluations and any other assessments
• Track planned evaluations and ensure that evaluation reports are obtained and timely shared to facilitate learning internally and across the partners
• Coordinate and facilitate lessons learned events among partners and communities to promote sharing of knowledge generated from project level community reflections, project monitoring and evaluations to improve future program selection, design and implementation as well improvements in existing frameworks
• Coordinate field monitoring and evaluation activities, stay abreast on best monitoring and evaluation practice and to support quality programming and accountability standards.
• Provide regular feedback to project staff to improve quality of documents at their source.
• Enhance learning, capacity building and codification of knowledge through regular contributions on the project monitoring, evaluation and reporting communities of practice.
• Provide documentation on case studies and success stories.

Humanitarian & Programme Accountability

Ensure that an appropriate humanitarian and programme accountability mechanism is established and functional for all projects assigned

• Ensure a Do No Harm (DNH) assessments are conducted to inform the project implementation process
• Ensure appropriate tools for Humanitarian Accountability (Complaints and response mechanisms) and mechanism of reporting are established and functional across all the project locations.
• An appropriate complaints response mechanism (including community help desks, suggestion boxes, etc) and methodology of feedback is established in all project communities
• Child protection incident reporting is mainstreamed into the humanitarian & programme accountability reporting system and incident reports incorporated in monthly reporting.

DME Capacity Strengthening 

Ensure DME capacity strengthening and awareness among staff and key stakeholders is enhanced.  Key areas of focus will be:

• Coordinate training and mentoring support to build the capacity of project officers and assistants

• Ensure tailor made trainings for project staff, other sectors, beneficiaries, communities and local authorities on complaints and response system, documentation of best practices, lessons learned and how to capture Most Significant Change (MSC) stories and report writing.
• Roll-out the monitoring and evaluation tools and methods with respect to monitoring and evaluation framework.

Experiences and Qualifications

• A minimum of University degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Community Development, Development Studies, Local Government or any related field.
• Minimum of three years’ work experience in community-based programming, local government or work with NGOs or humanitarian agencies, of which at least two years must be in monitoring & evaluation. 
• Professional technical skill desired: Knowledge of the SPHERE standards, Humanitarian Accountability Partnerships; other international humanitarian standards and other capacity building skills
• Proficiency in English, and Somali local language

Working Environment:

The position is office-based in Garbodadar, Somaliland with regular travel to other field locations.

Skills Required

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